WOLLASTON, WILLIAM HYDE. - AN EARLY STATEMENT OF "CONSERVATION OF ENERGY"

The Bakerian Lecture on the Force of Percussion. Read November 14, 1805.

(London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1806). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1806 - Part I. Pp. 13-22.

First printing of Wollaston's Bakerian lecture where he defends Gottfried Leibniz's principle of vis viva, an gives an early formulation of the conservation of energy.

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